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v w. WHITEHEAD. APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND CHECKING WO RKMENS TIME.

(Applichtiozifiled Dec. 29, 1897-.) (No Model.)

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No. 617,4l0. Patented Jan. [0, I899. -W. WHITEHEAD.

APPARATUS FOR RECORDING ANDCHECKING WOBKMENS TIME.

(Application filed. Dec. 29, 1897.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM \VIIITEIIEAD, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FORRECORDING AND CHECKING WORKMENS TIME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,410, dated January 10, 1899.

Application filed December 29,1897. Serial No. 664,814. (No model.)

To all whom it YN/(Y/y concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Recording and Checking W'orkmens Time and for other Similar Purposes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in that type of apparatus for recording and checking workmens time and for other similar purposes wherein the time the workman enters or leaves the works is stamped or impressed upon a recording-strip, the object being to provide means whereby the number of the workman and the said time are recorded on the said strip in one action, and thus the use of the apparatus simplified and expediated. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying two sheets of drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 2, Sheet I, are side views. Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 a vertical section, of my improved apparatus for recording and checking workmens time and for other similar purposes shown removed from the casing which contains it and the clock that actuates the stamp type-wheels. Fig. 5 is a detached plan of Fig. 1; Figs. 6 and '7, of Fig. 3; Fig. 7 a front view of Fig. 7. Fig. 8 shows a side, end, and edge view of the stamp carried by workmen; and Fig. 0 is a side view and plan of a modification in the construction of the magnet and armature employed in my improved recording and checking apparatus. Figs. 10 and 11, Sheet II, are front views of the casing in which the recording and checking apparatus and clock working the stamp type-wheels are fixed, Fig. 10 showing the casing closed and Fig. 11 open.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. 7

Referring to Sheet I, a is the main frame of my improved recording and checking apparatus b, the shelf upon which itis mounted. c are the stamp type-wheels. d is the inkingribbon; e, the recording-strip; f, the stamp g is the armature,

carried by the workman.

and 71, its magnet. 11 is the pawl and it the ratchet-wheel by which the stamp type-wheels c are intermittently rotated, the pawl i being attached to the armature g and the ratchetwheel 7; secured upon the sleeve Z, upon which the stamp type-wheels c revolve. 7

Referring to Sheet II, 172 is the casing with my improved recording and checking apparatus H in position therein, and 0 the clock from which the stamp type-wheels c are actuated and which in the present instance is worked electrically from the battery 1) in the casing m, all of which are shown diagrammatically.

In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally I preferably employ a time-stamp type-wheel mechanism such as described in specification of Letters Patent granted to me, No. 550,856, dated the 3d day of December, 1895, the frame 0, carrying the type-wheels c and their locking device, being stationary in this caset. e, secured to the sides of the main frame (L. In connection with the periphery of the stamp type-wheels c I employ a lever-like frame (1, the upper end of which is placed under the influence of a spring r,which has a tendency of retaining the leverlike frame in its outer position, (shown in the drawings,) one end of the said spring being attached to the main frame a, (see Fig. 2,) and the other by a rod 0" to the lever-like frame q. The latter has its fulcrum at q 011 the main frame CL, and in front is formed with a funnel-shaped mouth (1 adapted to receive the stamp j with the workmans number upon it. This stamp is carried by the workman, and is inserted into the said mouth and thrust forward by him, together with the lever-like frame (1, which action causes his number to be printed upon the front of the recordingstrip 6 and at the same time brings the back of the recording-strip against the stamp typewheels 0, and thus prints both number and time in one line simultaneously. At the back of the mouth (1 1s fixed to the frame Ct a platen a, over which the recording-strip c and across the latter the inking-ribbon (1 pass, the workmans stamp being pressed upon the inkingribbon and thus the number thereon printed upon the recording-strip from the front, while the time is impressed or embossed by the typewheels upon the front of the recording-strip from the back, another platen r being attached to the lever-like frame at the side of the mouth (f. The workmans stamp f, Fig. 8, is formed at each end with a projection f, which serve to guide the stamp and also to bear its thrust when inserted into and pushed against the bottom of the mouth (1 In connection with the upper end of the lever-like frame q a lever 5-, having a loose end 5' and under the influence of a springi, is arranged. This lever carries a bell-tongue a, adapted to strike the bell r each time the said frame qis depressed or pushed forward to the required extent by the workmans stamp and its upper end (1" brought into contact with the loose end .9.

The recording-strip-feeding and the in kingribbon mechanisms are both actuated by suitable connections from the lever-like frame q, the recording-strip 6 being moved so that its slack is taken up by the feed-roller 6; but when the said frame is caused to recede by its spring a the strip 6 is held tight by the feed-roller e 6 and by the frame (1 draw off the supply-roll 6 whereby the number and time stamped onto the strip 6 is caused to appear above the mouth q of the frame q in front of an opening m in the casing in sight of the workman, while the blank part of the strip is brought opposite the stamp-mouth another opening m being also formed in the casing 071 for the stamp1nouth to project through.

The recording-strip 6 runs from the supplyroll 6 over two guide-rollers e and c mounted in the lever-like frame g, the roller 6 serving in the meantime to draw the strip off the supply-roll e as required on the return movement of the frame g.

In the present instance the pawl-lever 10, which rotates the recording-strip feed-roller e, is actuated from the leverlike frame g by means of the rod 11', connected thereto, (see Figs. 1 and 4-,) and the ratchet-wheel d, by which the inking-ribbon spools (Z are rotated, by means of the pawl 03, pivoted to the leverlike frame g. (See Figs. 2 and 5.) The lever-like frame q is furnished with a pulley at each side, over which the inking-ribbon 6 runs to and from the spools (Z IVhen working the stamping apparatus electrically, as in the present instance, I prefer ably employ a swinging armature g in conjunction with a lever 3 which by suitable connections locks the same in position upon the magnet it while the stamp is in use similar as described in the specification of my patent hereinbefore referred to.

In the present instance the upper end of the armature g is linked to an arm .2, formed on a shaft .2", one end of which projects through the frame a (see Fig. 1) and has secured to it a small lever .2 which by means of a rod ,2 is connected to the lower end of a doublearmed lever 2"", the upper end of which is furnished with a pin which engages behind the projection y 011 the lever 3 when the armature is attracted, which lever is then locked in position while the stamp is in use by the upper end of the frame 1 pressing upon the free end thereof.

Instead of inserting the workmans stamp J" from the front into the mouth the latter may be partially closed in front and its upper wall formed with an opening g", (see Fig. 7,) which will admit of inserting the stamp into the mouth from the top.

According to a modification in the construction of the swinging armature g and magnet 72, the pole 7t of the magnet 7L may be longer than usual and the lower end of the armature g recessed to partially encircle the pole h, whereby the said magnet and arma ture are rendered more reliable.

In order to be able to readily remove the recording and checking apparatus described from its casing in, the wires running from the battery 2) to the stamp-magnet g are broken and their ends attached to brass blades U11 (see Figs. 1 and 5,) fixed, respectively, to the shelf Z), upon which the apparatus is mounted, and to the back of the casing m, which blades when the apparatus is slid into place come into contact with each other, and thus complete the wire circuit through the apparatus.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In apparatus for recording and checking workmens time and for other similar purposes, in combination with time-stamp typewheels actuated by a clock and adapted to print against an intermittently-moved recording-strip, a frame q, having a stamp-aperture g and platen g at its side, the said frame being adapted to be moved inward and to return automaticallyand the said strip passing between the said platen and a fixed platen a employed opposite the said aperture, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In combination with the frame g and the type-wheels o the stamp fformed with the number of the workman and adapted to be pressed by him into the aperture g whereby the said frame is moved against the strip 6 and the latter against the said type-wheels and the workmans number and time are re corded upon a strip 6 simultaneously in one line, all substantially as set forth.

3. In combination,the case,the type-wheels, the supply and feed rollers, the swinging frame, and guide-rollers for the strip carried by said swinging frame, said frame having an openingfor the insertion of a stamp therein whereby the workmans number and the time are recorded upon a strip and the strip fed by the movement of the swinging frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have allixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM WHITEIIEAD.

Witnesses:

ALFRED BOSSHARDT, STANLEY V. BRI-UIALTH 

